HERO FRAMED
While many street-style photographers turn their attention to the A-listers on the front rows of Fashion Week and the GRWM crowd, Japanese photographer Yutaro Saito focuses his camera towards the sharply-dressed older generations of Tokyo. Capturing unsuspecting elderly gentlemen dressed for the day in decade-old loafers or vintage bomber jackets, Saito documents and celebrates those with a timeless sense of style, alongside hyper-real shots of the cityscape, transforming delivery crates or bollards into surrealist neon artworks.
Name: Yutaro Saito
Age: 30
Location: Japan
Camera of choice: Nikon
Preferred subject: Fashion that is not plastic, plastic that is fashion.
Favourite time of the day to shoot: Daytime in winter.
How you first became interested in photography: When I was 22, my friend bought a camera and I went shooting with him. It was my first time with a real camera.
Biggest influence: LEGO bricks, RIP SLYME, GANTZ.
Favourite photography series/book: Neue Welt by Wolfgang Tillmans and Hysteric Six by Takuma Nakahira.
Current project/s: #3 Hyper Real Street Style.
Check out Yutaro on Instagram here.
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